Mother fakes kidnap of 3-month-old girl, held for killing child
THE WOMAN HAS AN 8-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER AND DESPERATELY WANTED HER SECOND CHILD TO BE A BOY
MUMBAI: Two days after a Kalachowkie resident claimed that her three-month-old daughter was stolen by an unidentified hawker from her house, the Mumbai Police crime branch on Thursday, arrested the 32-yearold mother for allegedly killing the child.
According to police, the accused woman, Sapana Bajrang Magdum, has an eightyear-old daughter and desperately wanted her second child to be a baby boy. The woman added that said she was being mentally harassed by her family members and had acted out of desperation. The woman had, however, reported a concocted story to the local police. On Tuesday, the woman had informed the police that on Tuesday afternoon a hawker aged between 30 and 35 years of age approached her at her residence, to sell a plastic bucket in exchange for old clothes. She had claimed that when she proceeded to her room, the hawker followed her and pressed a chloroform-laced cloth on her mouth, making her unconscious. She added that the hawker then picked up the baby girl, who was sleeping at the time and fled from the house.
She had said that after she gained consciousness, she called her husband and thereafter approached Kalachowki police station to report the incident. The police had registered a kidnapping case and formed several teams to search the woman hawker and trace the missing girl child. The crime branch had also started a parallel probe in the incident.
“When we enquired with the woman about the incident, we sensed a foul play. A skilful interrogation of the woman revealed that she had dropped the girl child in a water tank, in their house,” said deputy commissioner of police Prakash Jadhav of the crime branch.
Jadhav said the woman also informed them that she was being mentally harassed by her family members for failing to deliver a male child, and she committed the act out of desperation. He added that the woman has been handed over to Kalachowkie police for further investigation.